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The Christian Post ^ | 9/15/2015 | Matt Barber

[Scoutmaster]

I doubt Posner would go there. However, he views adoption agencies, whether private or public, as inefficient social welfare agents rather than agents to efficiently process adoptions. He blames adoption agencies for the shortage of babies to adopt and makes good arguments.

Among other things, he argues that if it were lawful to purchase babies, fewer babies would be raised in poverty by single mothers.

It's been years since I read the article, but if I remember correctly, he did a good job of explaining why the availability of babies to purchase would result in a price that did not include an incentive for women to give birth simply to sell their babies.

He's also argued in favor of offering organs for sale on the grounds that more people would become organ donors. Well, it's Posner. The explanation was economic and much more complicated than that.

[pla9999]

Oh? Is this entire book satirical as well?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't have much time to comment on this (I'm just about out the door) but selling babies is a bad idea. Those who have the money to do it, are are materialistic enough to actually become party to buying humans, wouldn't be buying the children of the poor, whom they would regard as off-brand, possibly coming from doper fathers and unhealthy mothers who probably have diabetes and haven't been taking their prenatal vitamins. They'd be buying babies from healthy white college students and willing to pay the premium price. Adoption only works to the good of the child if the child is adopted because of the child's personal dignity and human need, not because of the adult's wants or demands or yen for a lifestyle accessory.

Further promoting the modern babies-are-property trend is a very, very bad idea.

[Scoutmaster]

I understand the argument against selling babies. The problem with Posner is that when you read him, you find yourself nodding in agreement at some point. When you realize you're nodding in agreement you often have a moment of panic.

Maybe I can find an article by Posner on the issue, rather than a book.

Posner's theories are all based on a concept he pioneered called 'wealth maximization' - an economic theory that he says results in the best and most ethical operation of social institutions.

Here's a book review on one of the many books he's written on the subject of wealth maximization.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the link.

[Scoutmaster]

My pleasure. Here are links to two articles on the economics of adoption that Postner has authored or co-authored on the issue of free marked adoption/baby selling:

The Economics of the Baby Shortage

The Regulation of the Market in Adoptions

Other authors have written on the subject as well:

The Free Market Approach to Adoption: The Value of a Baby

A Modest Proposal to Deregulation Infant Adoptions

For those of you coming into the thread now, I'm not promoting the selling of babies. I mentioned earlier that Posner is primarily an economist who has writes about economic maximization - economics and the legal system in a morally neutral setting.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the links.

[jpsb]

"I'm not sure if the author of this article was totally disingenuous or just ignorant"

Thanks for explaining things to me.